7/3/2004: Rings of Saturn

[Beestie]

Originally posted by wolf I remember many years ago sitting in an auditorium at my college waiting as the live pics were coming in from V-ger ... amazing stuff. This brought back the moment.

Thanks.

Very cool. I heard something interesting about Voyager the other day. Apparently, at its present speed (it recently sped past the outer orbit of Pluto) it will not be completely free of the Sun's gravity for.....

take a wild guess

....

forty-four thousand years. Whoa. The furthest reach of the Sun's gravity is one definition of the edge of the Solar System (Pluto's orbit being another).